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Show me your struggle meals

>> No.11725814
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>>11725798
At least explain what the fuck that is

>> No.11725817

>>11725814
not him but I'm guessing some kind of asshole mashed potatoes with shitty cheese and creamer

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>> No.11725890
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>>11725798
Cheap meal for a Netflix and chill night

>> No.11725893

Honestly Hoover stew.
Thin sliced hot dogs, canned tomatoes and macaroni noodles

>> No.11725917

>>11725890
>those free clinic condoms

kek

>> No.11725929

>>11725817
how do you know it's not cauliflower with cheddar cheese and a uht milk intended for coffee?

>> No.11725933

Don’t have a picture but I had to eat hotdogs with hard taco shells and mild Taco Bell sauce

>> No.11725934

>>11725933
>>11725893
is this struggle food or just people who just never learned how to cook. because even on a budget you can cook something better than that

>> No.11725936

>>11725933
I've done flour tortillas with shredded cheese and fire sauce

That's why you always save the extra packets, lean days can sneak up on you

>> No.11725938

>>11725929
well anon the reason is because I don't, that's why I said GUESSING you complete fucking shit for brains down syndrome cock breath faggot

>> No.11725942

>>11725938

>i didn't know the answer so i guessed
but why.

>> No.11725943

>>11725934
Struggle food. I know how to cook, this was just at a time where I was living on scraps

>> No.11725949

OP here. It's what this guy said: >>11725929

Because that guy is as smart as he is handsome.

>> No.11725950

>>11725798
I usually eat plov because it’s very cheap, tasty, filling and you make huge batch of it.
Also lentil/sour bean soup, pasta and tuna bake.

>> No.11725951

>>11725942
because I fucking felt like it you insufferable homo

>> No.11725956

>>11725951
why does it burn when i pee?

>> No.11725960

>>11725956
hopefully because you have terminal AIDS in your gay diseased balls

>> No.11725964

>>11725949
Op here again

I am a huge fucking faggot. I can’t get enough of that cock, my thirst for dick will never be quenched.
Also anon is a fucking faggot

>> No.11725965

Chicken breast, empty half a packet of Papa Johns special seasoning (add pepper flakes if you want heat). Wrap in foil, bake ~35m, top with a slice of cheese, bake another 10m.
Costs $2 and is good comfort food.

Sardines + toast + chinese mustard.

Pork and beans, spam, white bread.

Ramlette.

That rice+egg thing.

Jambalaya dirty rice mix + half a polish sausage. Costs about $6 and make 4 hefty portions.

>> No.11725978

>>11725965
Also you could substitute the polish sausage or kielbasa with hotdogs but its not nearly as good. Its worth the extra $3. You could also make the dirty rice mix yourself but that requires spices which presumably arent available.

>> No.11726033

>Soy Pasta
Penne (or whatever pasta) cooked and then tossed with a little bit of butter and some soy sauce (use a nice sauce like Lee Kum Kee). Add whatever you think might go with it.

>Fried Rice
Hit up your local Asian grocery and get a 80c packets of nasi goreng paste. Make with rice (the less gluggy the better) and throw in anything you've got sitting around.

>Tuna Sandwich
Put tuna in sandwich

>> No.11726087

My struggle food never got worse than rice, black beans, onions, tomatos, and peppers because I'm not a retard and learned how to cook something both delicious and cheap and in huge batches so I dont have to keep cooking constantly.

>> No.11726207

Roasted potatoes and mixed veggies with a poached egg on top.

>> No.11726443

>>11725798
I just fast until I find food or money

>> No.11726755

>>11725890

Having a group of guys over to gangbang you, I see.

>> No.11726882
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Lived off of pic related for a solid 6 weeks last year when I totaled my car, lost my job and didn’t qualify for unemployment. Pretty miserable

>> No.11727001

>>11725890
are the condoms for when you decide on watching The Coneheads?

>> No.11727023
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There's no such thing as a "struggle meal" if you know anything about cooking.
Spaghetti with crushed garlic and olive oil is delicious.
Cheapest meat you can find, braised, with mashed potatoes and gravy made from the braising liquid.
Bake your own bread and have it with either some butter, garlic butter, or a mix of olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Seasonal vegetables roasted in the oven and served with rice. Reserve the liquid and thicken it a bit and pour it over.

Hell, a fucking can of baked beans and a couple hotdogs doesn't have to be bad.

It almost makes me angry when people assume it's impossible to have nice food without spending a lot of money.

>> No.11727059

>>11725798
When you fuck it up so badly you rebrand it as struggle food to feel better

>>11725890
Nice

>>11727023
Even delicious food can be called "struggle food" if it lacks enough ingredients. Ramen noodles are delicious and they only cost 34¢. What >11726882 posted is a good example

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>>11725798
3 euro China town

>> No.11727068

>>11727059
>Even delicious food can be called "struggle food" if it lacks enough ingredients
So it's about the number of ingredients involved? That is silly. Would you say that a piece of crazy-expensive wagyu steak is struggle food since that's only one ingredient? What about some caviar?

>Ramen noodles are delicious
Yeah, good ramen is fucking fantastic.

>they only cost 34¢.
those aren't delicious. Those are fail.

>> No.11727097

>>11727059
I disagree. >>11726882 is a fucking idiot for eating the same bland shit six weeks in a row because there are plenty of cheap ingredients out there you can use to mix it up. According to your own post he could at least have had ramen once in a while.
I know it's tough without a job etc. but making one or two dollars a day so you can buy some onions or carrots should not be impossible. Offer people to shovel snow or rake leaves or mow their lawn depending on the time of year. Offer someone with a largish yard to dig up their potatoes or pick their apples for them in exchange for a bag of them. Get off your ass, in short.
If you go by number of ingredients alone I suppose you consider Carbonara a struggle meal as well.
If you eat shite food it's because you're either stupid or lazy or both.

>> No.11727112

There was a time in uni where I literally had no money, couldn't even buy food. But I had flour, salt, and water so I lived off tortillas and water for a week straight.